AMV For You, or AMV for Me?

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:06 am

it seems that many forumgoers have misunderstandings about this question, as it's being interpreted in two ways:

(1) what people do you want to enjoy your amvs?
and
(2) in whose interests/motives are you creating your amvs? (i.e. who are you making amvs for?)

i've always taken the first interpretation of the question, and answered: both myself and others.

it seems many other members are taking the face-value interpretation of the question, (2), and i've usually ignored this interpretation because it's just much less frequent, if not rare for people to make amvs on commission by other people (yes i am aware of exceptions).

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:31 am

downwithpants wrote:it seems many other members are taking the face-value interpretation of the question, (2), and i've usually ignored this interpretation because it's just much less frequent, if not rare for people to make amvs on commission by other people (yes i am aware of exceptions).

Who's talking about commissions? There are people, like the "retired" Voices of Ryan, who make videos solely to please other people and gain recognition as an "artist." But he does it of his own volition. Honestly, I'm interested how many other people do that.

Prodigi · Post by **Prodigi** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:03 am

i aim to entertain others. But if a project i'm working on doesn't entertain me, then i scrap it. So ultimately i try to entertain others, by entertaining myself.

DeinReich · Post by **DeinReich** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:49 am

As long as I please myself with my videos, it doesn't matter. Others liking it is just icing on the cake.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:16 am

Flint the Dwarf wrote:
downwithpants wrote:it seems many other members are taking the face-value interpretation of the question, (2), and i've usually ignored this interpretation because it's just much less frequent, if not rare for people to make amvs on commission by other people (yes i am aware of exceptions).
Who's talking about commissions? There are people, like the "retired" Voices of Ryan, who make videos solely to please other people and gain recognition as an "artist." But he does it of his own volition.

I have trouble believing that he'd be so irrepressibly enthusiastic about making AMVs if that was all there was to it.
When he first started talking with me over AOLIM, you could not get him to shut up about AMVs and the aesthetics thereof and stuff like that... to say nothing of what he was like when in original trailer mode.

Irenicus · Post by **Irenicus** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:26 pm

1. I create AMV's to get rid of ideas spinning around in my head, which can be very irritating. This has got nothing to do with who is going to see how very bad I am at that stuff...
2. I'd like to say that I create AMVs for myself. Unfortunately this would be a lie. Of course I enjoy watching them (even though I'm not very skilled) but even more I enjoy watching others watching my AMVs as long as their faces do not radiate the wrong expressions. I need to catch the attention of others and the biggest reward is the question whether I could afford to burn my creation on a CD for them...
But... that's only human, isn't it? Isn't it?

megaman917 · Post by **megaman917** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:11 pm

SOAD2k8 wrote:As long as I please myself with my videos, it doesn't matter. Others liking it is just icing on the cake.

x2

sketchers · Post by **sketchers** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:55 pm

For my own entertainment....

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:58 pm

Neither. I can't say I enjoy making AMVs, and I can't say I'm particularly looking for attention.

Bote wrote:For the sake of art as itself, for the sake of AMVs as themselves and for the sake of me as myself.

There's a view I'll subscribe to.

Art isn't art for yourself or others. Art is only artistic as a means for itself.

paizuri · Post by **paizuri** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:35 pm

I make my videos to please Clara Peller.

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